Aleister Crowley is best today as a founding father of modern occultism. His
wide, hypnotic eyes peer at us on the cover of The Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper’s
Lonely Hearts Club Band, and his influence can be found everywhere in popular
culture.
“The Great Beast” has been the subject of several biographies, some painting
him as a misunderstood genius, others as a manipulative charlatan. None of them
have looked seriously at his career as an agent of British Intelligence.
Using documents gleaned from British, American, French and Italian archives,
Secret Agent 666 sensationally reveals that Crowley played a major role in the
sinking of the Lusitania, a plot to overthrow the government of Spain, the
thwarting of Irish and Indian nationalist conspiracies, and the 1941 flight of
Rudolf Hess.
Author Richard Spence argues that Crowley—in his own unconventional way—was a
patriotic Englishman who endured years of public vilification in part to mask
his role as a secret agent.
The verification of the Great Beast’s participation in the twentieth
century’s most astounding government plots will likely blow the minds of history
as well as occult aficionados.
Author Richard B. Spence has been seen on various documentaries on The
History Channel and is a consultant for Washington D.C.’s International Spy
Museum. He is also the author of Trust No One: The Secret World of Sidney Reilly
(Feral House).
Contributions from Sammy Nasr, Edward Mason, Malachi McCormick, Kathe McCaffrey,
Laura Merrill, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, and Ruth Strassberg
The Process Church of the Final Judgment was the apocalyptic shadow side of
the flower-powered ’60s and perhaps the most notorious cult of modern times.
Scores of black-cloaked devotees swept the streets of New York, San
Francisco, London, Paris, Rome, Chicago, Toronto, Boston, New Orleans and other
cities selling magazines with titles like Sex, Fear, Love and Death.
The Process’ no-holds-barred theology brought on accusations of sinister
conspiracies.
Personalities like Marianne Faithfull, George Clinton and Mick Jagger
participated in Process publications, and Funkadelic reproduced Process material
in two of their albums. Love Sex Fear Death — written by original Process Church member
Timothy Wyllie — is the first book to provide the astonishing inside story of
this fascinating group and the mysterious woman at its center. Included are
contributions from six other former members and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge.
Included are never-before-seen photographs and reproductions from rare
Process publications.
Info On The Process Church of The Final Judgment (from wikipedia):
The Process, or in full, The Process Church of the Final
Judgment, commonly known by non-members as the Process Church, was a
religious group that flourished in the 1960s and 1970s, founded by the English couple Mary Anne and Robert DeGrimston
(originally Robert Moor and Mary Anne MacLean).[1] Originally
headquartered in London it had developed
as a splinter group from Scientology,[1] so that
they were declared "suppressive persons" by L. Ron Hubbard in
December 1965.[2]
In 1966 the members of the group underwent a social implosion and
moved to Xtul on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, where they developed "processean" theology (which differs from, and is
unrelated to process
theology). They later established a base of operations in the United States in New Orleans.[2]
They were often viewed as Satanic
on the grounds that they worshipped both Christ and Satan.
Their belief is that Satan will become reconciled to Christ, and they will come
together at the end of the world to judge humanity, Christ to judge and Satan to
execute judgment. Vincent Bugliosi, the prosecutor of the Charles Manson family
trial, comments in his book Helter Skelter that there may be evidence
Manson borrowed philosophically from the Process Church, and that
representatives of the Church visited him in jail after his arrest. According to
one of these representatives, the purpose of the visit was to interview Manson
about whether he had ever had any contact with Church members or ever received
any literature about the Church.
In April, 1974 Robert DeGrimston was removed by the Council of Masters as
Teacher. They renounced The Unity, his exposition of the above-noted doctrines, and most of his other
teachings. DeGrimston attempted to restart the Process Church several times, but
he could never replace his original following. Following DeGrimston's removal,
the group underwent a significant change in orientation and renamed itself the
Foundation
Faith of the Millennium. In 1980 the name of the organization was changed to
The Foundation Faith of God. Further changes in both name and focus followed,
and the organization eventually became the Best Friends Animal Society, which
is now one of America's best known animal welfare rescue groups. Later on, many
of these same believers went on to support Gilles Deleuze in his leadership of the Anti-Oedipal movement of
1968.
A detailed account of the history of and life within the Process Church as
told by a participant-observer is contained in William S.
Bainbridge's book Satan's Power. (He employed a pseudonym for the
name of the group, referring to it as "The Power", and disguised the names of
people to preserve their identities, a procedure used for sociological studies
of living groups to ensure privacy.)
Processean theology
The term "processean theology" distinguishes these ideas from the process theology
derived from the thoughts of Alfred North Whitehead.
At Xtul was the first 'channeling' of God. After Xtul, Jehovah was the only recognised God. Later, with
Jehovah, Lucifer and Satan were recognised as "The Three Great Gods of the
Universe" and Christ as the Emissary to
the Gods. The Three Great Gods represent three basic human patterns of
reality:
Jehovah, the wrathful God of vengeance and retribution, demands
discipline, courage and ruthlessness, and a single-minded dedication to duty,
purity and self-denial.
Lucifer, the Light Bearer, urges us to enjoy life to the full, to
value success in human terms, to be gentle and kind and loving, and to live in
peace and harmony with one another. Man's apparent inability to value success
without descending into greed, jealousy and an exaggerated sense of his own
importance, has brought the God Lucifer into disrepute. He has become
mistakenly identified with Satan.
Satan, the receiver of transcendent souls and corrupted bodies,
instills in us two directly opposite qualities; at one end an urge to rise above
all human and physical needs and appetites, to become all soul and no body, all
spirit and no mind, and at the other end a desire to sink beneath all
human codes of behavior, and to wallow in a morass of violence, lunacy and
excessive physical indulgence. But it is the lower end of Satan's nature
that men fear, which is why Satan, by whatever name, is seen as the
Adversary.
In between these Three Great Gods and man, is an entire hierarchy of Gods,
beings and superbeings, angels and archangels, demons and archdemons, elementals and guides, and fallen angels and watchers.
The Process believes that, to varying degrees, these "God-patterns" exist
within all of us. The main doctrine of The Process is the unity of Christ and
Satan, who exist as opposites. Jehovah and Lucifer exist as opposites and when
Christ and Satan are united this will unite Jehovah and Lucifer.
In the original 1960s literature of the church, Christ, Lucifer, Satan, and
Jehovah were all arranged on a mandala, with Christ at the top opposite Satan on the
bottom and Jehovah on the left opposite Lucifer on the right. (The descriptions of the Gods comes from a teaching called "The Hierarchy"
published in December 1967, as a part of "The Tide of the End".)
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Process_Church_of_The_Final_Judgment )
Parfrey clarifies, in the preface, that the collection is not a "manifesto or
a smorgasbord
of personal fetishes or beliefs." "The book was compiled
to examine far-reaching and extreme societal tendrils."
Unable to find a printer willing to risk prosecution (under the Child Pornography Prevention Act), the book was
published with certain illustrations censored. The obscene parts of artwork by Blalla Hallman, Stu Mead, and
Beth
Love were blacked out, albeit in an incomplete manner. Feral House
made the objectionable paintings available for viewing on their website.
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